Molecular phylogenetics of the Muscidae (Diptera : Calyptratae): new ideas in a congruence context

We gratefully acknowledge Walter Boeger, Marcia Souto Couri, Ana Maria Azeredo-Espin, Gabriel A. R. Melo and especially Marcio R. Pie for discussing the manuscript and their valuable suggestions. We also would like to express our thanks to Adrian Charles Pont, who provided the European species, and Lisete M. Lorini for the loan of several of the South American specimens included in the study. We appreciate the relevant comments made by the anonymous reviewers regarding this publication.

This project was supported by a fellowship from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES (Programa de Doutorado com Estágio no Exterior – PDEE/BEX0143/02–2), and grants from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), process number 140700/2001–3 (GSS) and 304.148/2002–4 (CJBC), and the US National Science Foundation (0098745, BMW and J. Thorne; and 0334948, BMW). This paper is the contribution number 01707 of the Departamento de Zoologia da Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP).

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Appendix 1.  Species sampled and GenBank accession number for each gene fragment
Note that the sequences for COI (2792/C2N3389), tRNA-Leu and COII (2792/C2N3389) are continuous and so are listed with identical GenBank accession numbers. An asterisk indicates sequences originally published in Schuehli et al. (2004)

Appendix 2.  Species included in the analysis, their respective subfamilies and tribes (based on Carvalho 2002; Couri and Carvalho 2003), and geographical origin of specimen